HMK2
2mo ago
Remember when Netanyahu was rumored to have died in an Iranian airstrike and that coffee-shop video was widely thought to be AI?
I don't know. It just seems too good to be true. I got burned badly by futurist predictions in the eighties: the "room-temperature superconductors" announced in 1987, and the "cold fusion" hype in the spring of '89. I would like to believe, but at my advanced age, I find I can no longer look forward to anything (or get excited about anything) unless I'm drunk. Many years of experience puts me on team "Nothing Ever Happens". Edit: I read Drexler's Engines of Creation ovet Memorial Day weekend in 1988 (I had just finished my junior year in college) and it got me powerfully excited and optimistic. But then nothing happened ... and nothing continued to happen ... and decades passed, and now I'm morally sure nanotechnology will not improve anyone's life until I'm long dead and in my grave. If then.
HMK2
2mo ago
The Congo is pretty much the exact diametrical opposite of Japan in a lot of ways!
HMK2
2mo ago
Notice the remnants of many other tracks alongside; apparently only the one is used nowadays.
HMK2
2mo ago
HMK2
2mo ago
Juneway Terrace, the northernmost street in Rogers Park was (is??) known as Juneway Jungle.
HMK2
2mo ago
The southwest "bungalow belt" was safe - but it fell, starting around 1980. Its last hurrah was "Epton: Before It's Too Late" in the 1983 mayoral campaign which Harold Washington won.
Yeah, I had the impression that Charlotte, like almost all Southern cities, had exactly one walkable White neighborhood which you won't be living in unless you can afford million-dollar houses or $3000 rents. (Edit: and like all such neighborhoods nowadays, if your politics are anything other than "left-liberal shading towards DSA", you won't feel welcome there and you won't be making any friends. Expect pride flags and "In This House We Believe..." signs everywhere.) And, like most Southern cities, the public transportation in the postwar neighborhoods consisted of maybe one bus per hour, and there are no "third places" there unless you count Wal-Mart and McDonalds.
HMK2
3mo ago
... because everyone knows that the "w" sound is represented by digamma in Greek.
HMK2
3mo ago
I wonder how close Israel is to destroying Hezbollah completely. It'd be a shame if they had to stop when they'd almost got rid of them.
HMK2
3mo ago
In the early nineties, I used to listen to Howard Stern (back then he was only on 92.3 K-Rock, WYSP, WJFK!) I eventually got tired of the frequent 10-minute ad breaks and lost track of the show, but I read an article a few years ago that implied, without actually saying it, that he had dropped his funny material and gone woke in his old age. Pity. I used to love hearing him go off on other DJs.
HMK2
3mo ago
You saw this in its purest form in Russia in 1918-20, when people rejoiced at seeing former industrialists starving, in pauper's rags. This was during Ayn Rand's teenage years and did a lot to form her world-outlook!
HMK2
3mo ago
On most subreddits, he's literally the devil. They're reposting that "Hitler salute" photo from last year, and there are quite a few posts wishing death on him.
HMK2
3mo ago
He once was, or so I thought. He got a ton of stuff built in Manhattan, Atlantic City etc. But maybe he just bribed the municipal authorities.
HMK2
3mo ago
Iran War: Really getting sick and tired of the endless "Trump threatens attacks, backs down promising that a 'deal' is just a couple days away, Iran resubmits the same proposals which basically amount to the US' total surrender with no concessions by Iran, Trump makes more baseless threats" cycle. I've lost track of how many times this has happened. Just end it, one way or another.
I've found myself wishing I was a mutant with immense psychic powers, so the next time Trump swears he's going to do something or other, I'd be able to force him to keep his promises!!
HMK2
3mo ago
I'm old enough to remember the first VR hype in the early nineties. They made it sound like totally realistic VR sex with partners you created yourself, was only two or three years away. Seems like that isn't even on the farthest horizon now.
HMK2
3mo ago
I agree. IMO a much better anthem would be "The Maine Stein Song", slowed down and with more appropriate lyrics.
HMK2
3mo ago
I understand that California passed the Jackie Coogan Act because the parents of the aforementioned child star spent all the money he earned on hookers and blow.
HMK2
4mo ago
Or AI, which has lately been the subject of half to two-thirds of the top-level posts in the CW threads. A big change from Reddit days.
Cyndi Lauper's dead??
j/k
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